Steffi & Gerry: Trip around the World
Travel Blog of our Honeymoon around the World
Second island hopping: from Kauai to The Island of Hawaii (better known as Big Island) via Honolulu, Oahu.
Unfortunately, a flight from (finally) sunny weather into the rain. It wasn’t that bad, we quickly visited the Rainbow Falls which are close to Hilo, but at our time of visit in the late afternoon no rainbow could be seen at the falls.
Time to explore the Garden Island. First stop was at the Spouting Horn, a blow-hole which erupts sea water like a geyser.
Then we drove into the Waimea Canyon, also known as “Grand Canyon of the Pacific”, and there is really something about it.
Sadly, we had to skip our hiking plans, as it started to rain and the trail was very muddy. We drove deeper into the canyon, but the weather got worse – no wonder, as we got close to one of the wettest places on earth: Mt Waialeale, which means “overflowing water”.
But, where’s rain, there’s also a chance for rainbows. And indeed, on our way back we got a few good rainbow-in-the-canyon pictures.
